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三番五次

sān fān wǔ cì

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word

三番五次 (sān fān wǔ cì) means "over and over again (idiom)". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 三番五次 means

1. over and over again (idiom)

The characters in 三番五次

• 三sānthree; 3
• 番fān(bound form) foreign (non-Chinese); barbarian; classifier for processes or actions that…
• 五wǔfive; 5
• 次cìnext in sequence; second; the second (day, time etc)

Example sentences

• 他三番五次评判别人。
  He judges other people time and again.

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